Description |
xii, 421 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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ISSR Library |
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ISSR Library
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Contents |
God's omnipresence, God's body, and four ideals of science -- Divine omnipotence and laws of nature -- Divine providence and the course of history -- Divine and human knowledge : knowing by doing -- From secular theology to the Enlightenment |
Summary |
This pioneering work in the history of science, which originated in a series of three Gauss Seminars given at Princeton University in 1984, demonstrated how the roots of the scientific revolution lay in medieval scholasticism. A work of intellectual history addressing the metaphysical foundations of modern science, Theology and the Scientific Imagination raised and transformed the level of discourse on the relations of Christianity and science. Amos Funkenstein was one of the world's most distinguished scholars of Jewish history, medieval intellectual history, and the history of science. Called a genius and Renaissance man by his academic colleagues, Funkenstein was legendary for his ability to recite long literary passages verbatim and from memory in Latin, German, French, Hebrew, Yiddish, and Greek decades after he had last read them. A winner of the coveted Israel Prize for History, Funkenstein was born and raised in Palestine and received his Ph. D. in history and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin in 1965, as one of the first Jewish students to receive a doctorate in Germany after World War II |
Analysis |
God - Attributes |
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Religion and science - History |
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Christian doctrine related to science, 1500-1637 |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [365]-399 |
Subject |
God -- Attributes.
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Science -- Philosophy.
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God -- History of doctrines.
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Science, Mediaeval -- Philosophy
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Religion and science -- History.
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God -- Attributes -- History of doctrines.
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God (Christianity) -- Attributes -- History of doctrines.
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Religion and science.
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Knowledge, Theory of -- History.
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Philosophy -- History.
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Religion and Science.
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Philosophy -- history.
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Genre/Form |
History.
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LC no. |
85043281 |
ISBN |
0691084084 alkaline paper |
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9780691084084 |
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9780691024257 |
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0691024251 |
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